Box and buckle device for harness.



No, 7I6,253.

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BX AND BUCKLE DEVICE FOR HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 7l5,253,dated December 1.6, 1902.

' Application filed May 3, 1902. Serial No. 105,744. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, JOHN M. LEBnNs, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Jordan, in the county of Scott and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Box and Buckle Devices; and I-do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object Ato provide an improved box andV buckle device for harnesses; and to this end it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the Maccompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is a planview with some parts broken away, showing a box designed in.accordance with my invention and also a buckle and strap which cooperates therewith. Fig.

2 is a side or edge elevation of the said parts.`

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line ac3 w3 of Fig. l, some parts being leftin full. Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the line m4 m4 of Fig. 3. Fig. is a plan view of 4a strap from which the body of the box is formed, and Fig. 6 is a planiview of the so-called spacing loop or piece As is well known, boxes of this character are provided at various places in harnesses for receiving the ends of straps-such asbreeching-straps, collar-tugs, bridle-checks, and the like. Usually these boxes have been formed by bending a wide strip Vof leather around a heavy back piece and sewing the edges thereto.

In accordances with my invention I use only a dat piece or pieces of leather inconnection with a marginal spacing strip or loop and run a single seam through the edges of the same.

The character oi indicates the strip which through the slit d3 the short projecting end of the strap is turned over and back onto the body of the strap, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. A metal loop fis slipped onto the strap ct down to the reduced portion ot', and then the long projecting end ofthe said strap is turned over onto the body, but between the same and the body is first placed the marginal spacing strip or *loop b. The overlapped parts are vthen sewed together by a heavy seam g.

The character 7o indicates the strap which cooperates with the buckle c and which may be assumed to be either a breech-strap, collar-tug, or bridle-check. The end of this strap 7c is adapted to be inserted into the open-` ing or interior (t4 of the box-like housing afforded by the strap ct and spacing-strip b and it is of course evident that the said spacingstrip Z9 should be as thick or preferably a little thicker than the said strap fk, and that the dierence between its longitudinally-extended side should be a little greater than the width of the said strap k, so as to make the insertion and removal of said strap an easy matter, lt will be noted that the spacing loop or strip b is beveled, as shown at b', and that in line therewith the end of the strap ct is beveled, as shown at d5, to aord an entrance-passage for the strap 7c into the cavity or interior a4. Of course this entrance-passage might be afforded by entirely' cutting away the end of the spacing-loop b; but the construction described is stronger'than the modiiication suggested, for the reason that the seam g may be run through the body and backturned end of the strapaand through both ends of the said spacing-loop, so that the one reinforces and strengthens the other.

It will of course be understood that the device above described is capable of some modification within the scope of my invention as herein set forth and claimed. i i

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

l. The combination with the buckle c and `strap la, of parallel box-forming sections, and

a marginal spacing-strip interposedbetween the edges of said parallel strap-sections, the edges of said box-forming strap-sections and the said spacing-strip being sewed together, and one of said strap-sections, at the open end of the box, being projected farther than roo the other and secured to said buckle, substantially as described.

2.l The combination with the buckle c and strap la, of the box-forming strap a connected 5 to said buckle and folded upon itself, and the marginal spacing -strip interposed between the overlapped sections of said strap a, the edges of which strap a and of said spacingstrip are sewed together, substantially as de- Io scribed.

3. The combination with the buckle c, loop f and strap lo, of the box-forming strap a reduced at a and a?, provided with the slit a3 and beveled at a5, which strap is folded upon 

